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x3n0n89 t1_iwlwgy1 wrote

I'd say christianity doesn't need to be true. The whole point of having faith gets negated by the search for absolute certainty.

Try Kierkegaard and his idea of a "leap of faith".

Not christian myself but applying principles to your life and act "as if" there is a god, then your days until death will be more likely to be like heaven than hell.

I wouldn't oversimplify by just living by principles. Look at the core values of christianity and compare them to something like humanism and you will find common denominators. Some examples: unconditional love, solidarity, generosity, justice and equality, tolerance etc.

Now you could argue: wait actual christians aren't [insert life-affirming value] at all! That is because core principles and values don't seem to be internalized and applied that much, instead the focus lies on finding out if the scripture is true in a scholastic and calculated sense. Roger Bacon criticised this.

In pragmatic terms the bible doesn't need to be true for it work.

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aChristianPhilosophy t1_iwnjpas wrote

Hi. What you say works well in the pragmatic sense. But I'd say that we can still find arguments to support that Christianity is also true.

I wouldn't worry about philosophy finding certainty and replacing faith - it's not going to happen. To be very strict, certainty is only found in pure logic and mathematics. For everything else, truth is at best only reasonable or probable. And true faith is not blind but supported by reason. It is "the act of believing and behaving based on knowledge that is not certain yet reasonable".

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